Virtues and Manners

Abu Sālih used to order us that if anyone of us wanted to sleep, he should lie on his right side This is mercy that Allah, the Exalted, has placed in the hearts of His slaves. Verily, Allah shows mercy to those of His slaves who are merciful If the slave draws closer to Me by a hand-span, I shall draw closer to him by a cubit; and if he draws closer to Me by a cubit, I shall draw closer to him by the span of two outstretched arms. If he comes to Me walking, I shall come to him running While a man was walking on a path, he found a thorn branch on the road, so he put it aside. Allah, thus, thanked him and forgave him Do not keep the farmland lest you should desire the world This (line) represents man, and this (line) represents the end of his life, and while he is as such, the closest line overtakes him The worst lie is when a man claims to have seen something which he has not seen The one who boasts of receiving what he has not been given is like the one who has put on two garments of falsehood It does not befit the truthful one to frequently curse others Do not curse one another, invoking the curse of Allah or His wrath or the fire of Hell Unload it and set it free, for it is cursed Let the she-camel upon which curse has been invoked not accompany us Oxus, Jaxartes, Euphrates, and the Nile are all from the rivers of Paradise The devil said: By Your Might O Lord, I will continue to misguide Your slaves as long as their souls remain in their bodies. The Lord said: By My Might and My Majesty, I will continue to forgive them as long as they seek forgiveness from Me Beware of the invocations of the oppressed person, for, indeed, they rise to heaven as if they were sparks of fire Paradise and Hell argued with one another. Hell said: I have been assigned the arrogant and the tyrants. Paradise said: Why is it that only the weak, the insignificant, and the simple enter me? Two gardens, the utensils and the contents of which are of silver; two other gardens, the utensils and the contents of which are of gold. Nothing will prevent people from looking at their Lord except the veil of pride over His Face in the Garden of Eden Verily, in Paradise, there is a tree that the rider of a lean, swift horse would travel for a hundred years without reaching its end Verily, in Paradise there is a market to which they will come every Friday The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) went out and supplicated for the martyrs of the battle of Uhud eight years after (their death), as if he was bidding farewell to the living and the dead